Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. A prescient novel of illness; a tale of man and Europe on the brink of catastrophe.
Simon Pare, translator of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Magic Mountain, and Karolina Watroba, scholar of Mann, modernism, and world literature, will discuss the strange world of Mann’s Alpine sanatorium: its suspended time, comic social rituals, bodily obsessions, intellectual quarrels and its haunting proximity to death.
Simon Pare is an award-winning literary translator from French and German into English.
Karolina Watroba is a German Studies scholar and author at the University of Edinburgh.